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President Clinton later today joins (36)______Presidents Ford, Carter and Bush at "the president’’s summit for America’’s future"(37)______at recruiting one million volunteer tutors to provide after-school, weekend and summer reading help for up to three million children. Mr. Clinton will ask Congress this coming week for nearly three (38)______dollars to fund a five-year program called "America Reads". The program would fund the (39)______efforts of 20 thousand reading (40)______and it would also give (41)______to help parents help children read by the third grade, or about age eight. During his Saturday radio (42)______, the president explained why the (43)______is important. "We need ’’America Reads’’ and we need it now. studies show what if the fourth-graders fail to read well, (44)____________. But, 40 percent of them still can’’t read at a basic level." Volunteer tutors, who provide community service in exchange for college funding, are being used in literacy and tutoring programs. (45)____________. The president says many of the Philadelphia summit’’s corporate sponsors will recruit tutors. (46)____________.